Showing posts with label Infotech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infotech. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2004

A phone that sniffs you out

Siemens, the German telecommunications company, is working on a mobile phone that could would sound an alarm if its owner's breath or body starts to stink.

It’s not a joke. You can read the article at the Reuters Oddly Enough site.

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Hacked

My computer crashed early morning last Monday. I think I was hacked in one of the Yahoo chatrooms. 

Somebody nicknamed Auf_Wiedersehen sent me a flood of voice chat invitations to a gay room, which of course I kept denying. A mistake I guess.

Thursday, April 01, 2004

Taking on Java

In the course of downloading a lot of freeware, I stumbled on so many software developers’ sites that I became interested in programming. So now I’m studying Java and doing some C++ reading at the same time.

Saturday, March 06, 2004

Freeware hound

Ever since I got this new computer, I've become such a hound for freeware. I work at home, or at least I try to whenever I'm not distracted trying to fix a bug in my computer because of some flashy new freeware I've installed.

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Freeware spotting

At last, after about a month of tweaking Windows 98 and my searching for freeware, I have everything set up the way I want them. 

I spent hours downloading freeware and then installing and uninstalling them, and in between usually stalling. I finally got the bare freeware items I need.